(GitHub Enterprise Cloud) Search across all organizations in an enterprise

[raja-sekar-db]

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I work for a large enterprise & a GitHub Enterprise user. There are 100s of GitHub Organizations in this enterprise setup.

The GitHub Code Search capability only allows the following scopes

• within a repo
• within an organization
• all GitHub

Is it possible to scope the search to all organizations (only) in my enterprise?

[JoshuaTheMiller]

As of now and as far as I'm aware, no- it is not possible 😟 With that being said, hopefully more folks come across this Discussion and Vote on it so that GitHub knows that it is a highly useful feature (one that is probably highly requested as well!).

In case folks say otherwise- yes, we could create a massive search-string that includes a list of all Enterprise Orgs as Org filters. With large Enterprises though, this gets unwieldy and we will bump into search size limits.

[justinmchase]

If anyone from GitHub reads this I would propose a new search term ent:<name> where <name> is the name of the enterprise you wish to search in.

Also, sorry but I'm the one filing the feedback via the feedback button about this over and over again, as I keep getting burned by it :)

[look]

Thanks for your patience on this. We hear you and plan to implement it, but we've been focusing on getting the new search scaled up so everyone can use it.

[justinmchase]

...new search...

Is there anywhere where we can read more about this?

[look]

Yes, you can check out the feature page and our announcement blog post.

[Timmmy-nlb]

After 10 months I would like to ask: what about this feature?
Unfortunately I can't find anything on the github roadmap... has this feature request already been canceled?

[justinmchase]

Yes please, @look any update on the enterprise search specifically?

[look]

We've had to prioritize other work, but we still plan to implement this.

[rdohms]

@look has there been any progress on getting this into the backlog? Our Org is really hindered by it, and we are already going over the char limit for adding org: filters as a workaround.

[look]

We've heard the feedback that this is an important feature for many customers, and we have added it to our near-term roadmap. Sorry I can't be more precise, but it is coming!

[rdohms]

How does it look @look? How far in the near-term is it?

[rdohms]

guess is not looking so good...

[emilva]

+1. We will not migrate to GHEC before this feature is available.

[jennifer-blate-db]

The new search is waaay better than the old search, but it still doesn't have this functionality, which would be very helpful.

[jennifer-blate-db]

Is there a more official location that we can upvote this feature request or is this it?

[look]

This is the best place. I hope to be able to share updates soon. 😉

[jennifer-blate-db]

Great! looking forward to it!